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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day 2010 - Arch Hurd
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Michael S. Walker |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Software Freedom Day 2010 - Arch Hurd |
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Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:16:07 +0100 |
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:00:56 +0100
Michael Dorrington <address@hidden> wrote:
> It is! [1]
Yay!
> I've heard of you. Or perhaps that should be, I've Hurd of you. :D
> But then I'm interested in the Hurd, I did a MFS talk including it:
> GNU's Not Linux: kFreeBSD and Hurd kernels for the GNU System
> <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Manchester/2010-06-15>.
>
> I'm currently working on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD but this should help with
> Debian GNU/Hurd (and Arch Hurd) long term. The kFreeBSD
> debian-installer work has helped getting the Hurd debian-installer.
> Would be great to chat to you.
I was looking through your facebook group and saw that talk, it sounds
like it was interesting. And yes, the debian-installer progress in this
GSoC has been of great interest to us - particularly the work on initrd
support in GNU Mach.
> Its all fairly relaxed (well, if you aren't the organiser it is) with
> people running their stalls, demo'ing ad-hoc and informally chatting.
> At last year's event several people that attended said that they were
> interested in a more explained Ubuntu install demo and so we[2] set a
> time (so as to give a chance to gather more people) and then ran it.
Well, I'll see how it goes and maybe do something more spectacular
next year - we have plans to hit ArchCon 2011 and possibly FrOSCon next
year, with one of the devs maybe doing something at C3 this year. All
publicity is good publicity ;)
> Yes, this is good.
> That's good.
> That's how we roll. :)
I have until the 18th to sort out a working Hurd box then :P
> I'll put you on our SFD wiki page. Set up is from 8am-10am, with event
> starting at 10am. Though it doesn't hot up until a little later
> (11am?).
Great - what time do things generally last until?
> [1] Perhaps I should put the team email address on the SFD wiki?
Probably - I think I turned to google to find this email address
--
Michael Walker (http://www.barrucadu.co.uk)
Arch Hurd Developer; GNU Webmaster; FSF member #8385
http://www.archhurd.org http://www.gnu.org http://www.fsf.org
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